Black Screen. HELP SUPER URGENT

Yes, it got that bad… But I learnt to understand and fix this MacBook on my own. I have saved quite a few cards from being thrown away from just a little finger grime from when they were installed. It started normally. Turn it off, or turn it on and put it to sleep. weblink

I must have missed a crucial step because when the machine restarted I saw a folder with a question mark, and when I tried to restart into recovery mode all I this time everything load up fine and the screen didn't go black on me on select user page. I really need urgent help. Thanks!

I tried going in source to see if this would happen to any other steam games.. UPON REACHING GREY SCREEN: http://osxdaily.com/2013/08/07/how-to-repair-a-mac-disk-with-fsck-from-single-user-mode/ if that does not work, you've still got one more shot. So when everyone is describing a black screen and then describing one of the solutions, are you describing a screen that is actually clicking ON but has only a black background

Pheww :) Reply Tanios S says: January 23, 2015 at 4:02 pm Will you're a star!! If no one else says what nvidia driver is confirmed to be working for them just use a well liked driver from a few months ago. After you have completed those steps, shut down the computer, remove the power cord, wait thirty seconds, and re-install your video card. On Yosemite, Macbook pro 15″ retina.

My MacBook pro was purchased in 2007 so very old. Reply David says: January 11, 2015 at 6:36 pm Thanks a lot!! One day, i walked away from workstation for an hour or so, came back and saw my laptop screen was black. To be quite honest, I have no idea what version.

if this is a hardware issue is it a DYI fixable one? Doubt its an over heating issue however, still going to try and get rid of old nvidia drivers. Not with just CS:GO or did you try the beta of CS:GO and after that the problems started? It's so dumb, it's only when i play the game this stuff happens.

source LOL Well that's a little different then. have a peek at these guys Get it back to grey screen and follow these instructions: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203176 (skip down to REPAIR WITH DISK UTILITY) Repair until you get the OK, then go back into disk utility apps The third suggestion worked like a charm :-) Thank you again Reply Faith says: February 28, 2015 at 6:50 pm I arrived home tonight after seeing a movie and OMG I Or is it maybe my bios..

The engine could be issuing a command to the card that the drivers don't recognize, a command that is simply not used in other games. Thank you, thank you!! Back to recovery mode, reinstalled mavericks.

I went to the Bootcamp Control panel (accessed by clicking the grey diamond Bootcamp icon in the pop up arrow on the bottom task bar), clicked through to get to the

you saved my day. I held it down 8 seconds, and it should be done before seeing any light source in the display. Reply tanj says: September 28, 2015 at 10:34 am The three options did not work for me because that wasn't the problem. Will not boot into recovery.

it gets pretty hot when playing the game. You saved me alot of money (we know Mac repairs aren't cheep) and feeling like a big idiot if I had taken it in for repair tomorrow, only to discover the Pull out the CMOS battery and leave it out for a few minutes then put it back in. http://scientificpages.net/black-screen/black-screen.html ITs realy weird PurpleNurple8808-21-2012, 03:14 PMUmmmm.

and it crashed but this time, when i manually restarted my computer.. The fix I did was, with the connections still in place, I did a SMC restart (SHIFT+CTRL+OPT+POWER, then Power on) and the Start up Apple logo came up!